As my parents arrive tomorrow, I've been busy cleaning and cooking but I made a quick stop onto RedBubble this morning because, well... I'm addicted. I was absolutely shocked and thrilled to find that one day after publishing my Fabulous Flowers 2009 calendar, it was chosen by the RedBubble staff to be featured! This is such an extreme honour for me because there are literally thousands of calendars available for purchase on the site and the caliber of the images in many of them is outstanding. I feel so excited to be honoured by my fellow artists for doing something that I love to do. A million thank yous.

I'm not sure how long my calendar will remain on the feature page, but you can check out the current features here.

My first calendar for 2009 is now available on RedBubble. I'm really excited by the quality of these calendars, as well as the lower retail price and shipping costs compared to last year.

I am still taking requests for other calendar subjects. Please e-mail me or leave a comment if there is a particular theme you would like to see.

You can order your Fabulous Flowers 2009 Calendar by clicking here.

Um… can someone help me out? I seem to have lost a month somewhere… answers to the name of September. Anyone?

So I have one week left to batten down the hatches before the Canadian contingent arrives. (i.e., clean like a crazy person so my Mother isn’t totally horrified and vacuuming before she goes to bed at night).

Seriously though, things are more or less under control. I just have some last minute cleaning to do. Tomorrow we’re going to sort out the sleeping situation by purchasing another mattress. All of our tickets, hotels and tours are booked for our road-trip adventure and I’ll make a trip to the market on Sunday to stock the fridge.

The weather has been fabulous the past few weeks, despite a bit of an autumn chill in the air, so I’m pretty sure the downpour will start on Wednesday afternoon next week - about an hour before the plane lands. Andrew and I have been trying our best to enjoy the weather while we have it on our side, by walking around the city and discovering our corner of Brussels.

This is my parents’ second visit to Europe, and they will be the first visitors to our new flat. I’m excited to show them some of the things we’ve discovered since their last visit. We have more of a routine now, more favourites, and we feel more comfortable with life in Brussels and Europe in general.

I’m excited to share La Benjamine and Barcelona with them. I’m also very excited to discover Malta with them and explore the middle of Spain. I’m desperately hoping for sun and a bit of warm weather since we missed summer altogether.

CheeseWeb will probably be pretty quiet from here on out. I’ll try to update when I can, but this week I’ll be busy bringing my photo sites up to speed since I’ll be missing work for a month. The desktop wallpapers will still be here and I’ll try to post a few pictures when I can. So I hope you bare with me for the next month, check out the photoblog which will still have a new image everyday and I’ll see you in November!